Remove Line Break

Rock · #1 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007

Dear all,

Please advise what approach can remove all line break from a text file?
e.g.
Source file:
A
B
C

Target file:
A, B, C

Thanks,
Rock

matrixmadhan · #2 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007

this had been answered many times

please search the forums

Code:

awk 'BEGIN{}{printf "%d, ", NR}END{printf "\n"}' filename

zazzybob · #3 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007

A similar result can be achieved with

Code:

paste -s -d',' tmpfile | sed 's/,/, /g'

Cheers
ZB

aigles · #4 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007

Using awk again :

Code:

awk '{printf("%s", $0 (NR==1 ? "" : ","))}' filename

Jean-Pierre.

anbu23 · #5 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007

Code:

sed -n -e ":a" -e "$ s/\n/,/gp;N;b a" file

or

Code:

var=$( tr '\n' '-' <file )
var=${var%-}

radoulov · #6 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rock

Please advise what approach can remove all line break from a text file?
e.g.
Source file:
A
B
C

Target file:
A, B, C
[...]

Code:

awk '$1=$1' OFS=", " RS= infile

Use nawk on Solaris.

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